Marxism and history. A critical introduction.
Editorial MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780719056123
- ISBN10 0719056128
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Theorie Der GeschichteMarxism and history. A critical introduction.
Editorial MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
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Marx's theory of history is often regarded as the most enduring and fruitful aspect of his intellectual legacy. His "historical materialism" has been the inspiration for some of the best historical writing in the works of scholars such as Eric Hobsbawm, E.P.Thompson, Rodney Hilton and Robert Brenner. S.H. Rigby establishes Marx's claims about social structure and historical change, discusses their use in his own and his followers' writings, and assesses the validity of his theories. He argues that Marx's social theories were profoundly contradictory and that Marxism has proved most useful when it is seen as a source of questions, concepts and hypotheses rather than as a philosophy of historical development.